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A Pennsylvania sheriff’s deputy could be charged with manslaughter if investigators determine he was high on cocaine when he shot and killed a rape suspect last month. Richard Dwyer was fired by the Allegheny County sheriff after he tested...

Shafi Khan, a friend of the Muslim students shot dead in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, blasted Republicans and Fox News on Wednesday for demonizing people of the Muslim faith. “Speaking as an American Muslim, I can tell you that we can’t...

A black Minnesota man recorded a tense confrontation with a white man who pulled a gun after apparently mistaking him for a drug dealer. Demetrius Taylor, of St. Paul, said he was sitting with his nephew in a parked car that he was considering...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is demanding that mohels — the men who perform circumcisions in Orthodox Jewish communities — verbally warn parents of the potential dangers associated with the “oral suction”...

A federal judge in Alabama will hear arguments on Thursday on whether to force a local judge to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, a case with implications for dozens of counties in the state that have not granted the licenses in defiance...

California’s Lieutenant Governor said Wednesday he would run for governor in 2018, staking an early claim to fund-raising and endorsements as the most populous U.S. state faces an unprecedented generational shift in political leadership....

President Barack Obama said he would not flinch from sending US special forces to kill Islamic State leaders, as he called for Congress to authorize military operations that stop short of a full-scale invasion. Tantamount to a declaration of...

If the pope can accept that humans have an impact on climate change, Bill Maher wondered, then why can’t conservative American Catholics like Rick Santorum? In a blog post, the host of HBO’s “Real Time” quoted Santorum, a former U.S. Senator and...

A gunman who had posted anti-religious messages on Facebook and quarreled with neighbors was charged with killing three young Muslims in what police said on Wednesday was a dispute over parking and possibly a hate crime. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46,...

A federal judge hearing the case of nine men accused of illegally growing marijuana in California said Wednesday she was taking very seriously arguments by their attorneys that the federal government has improperly classified the drug as among...

Republicans exploring a 2016 White House run are pounding away at President Barack Obama’s strategy for stopping Islamic State militants but, wary of Americans’ war fatigue, are so far providing few specifics on what they would do...

A federal judge hearing the case of nine men accused of illegally growing marijuana in California said Wednesday she was taking very seriously arguments by their attorneys that the federal government has improperly classified the drug as among...

A U.S. ban on the interstate sales of handguns by federal firearms dealers to buyers from other states violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Wednesday. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor...

In a response to questions by Oregon media over whether he might step down amid a criminal probe over potential influence-peddling violations, embattled Governor John Kitzhaber said on Wednesday he had no intention of resigning. Kitzhaber, a...